What is the (--x) switch?

[alsallad]

I'm trying to install a 6.3 system on an o2 and am using the helpful guidance of this group.
I can run fxARCS without '--x' but then fxARCS seems to be running in 'safe mode' only and after installing 'installation tools' it does a restart. Fine so far?
It then complains that it cannot find a valid file system. Opening the shell, and trying a "mkfs /dev/dsk/dks0d2s0' it returns a failed comment. Does the '--x' have something to do with this?
Running, 'boot -f dksc(0,4,8)sashARCS dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.ARCS--x' results in: Autoboot failed, Unable to continue; press <enter> to return to menu.
Any comments on getting a system installed would be welcome - I'm a designer running macs and am trying to get into unix/irix.

Machine is o2 r10000, cd on 4, hd on 2.

cheers folks! btw - I've been through as many faqs and posts on this board as I can and still can't get a base system installed - apologies in advance for my excessive dimness

 

[srinibee]

Hi

What is the SystemPartition and OSLoadPartition devices?
you can find out using &quot;printenv&quot; from prom monitor.

and also type hinv to find out how many disks available.

Determine which disk you wanted to load OS and set the OSLoadPartition and SystemPartition accordingly.

Example: For disk 1 on controller 0

setenv SystemPartition dksc(0,1,8)
setenv OSLoadPartition dksc(0,1,0)

You missed a space between fx.ARCS and --x

regards
Srinivas Bandaru